Jim Hoft, officially the stupidest man on the Internet, possesses analytical powers beyond the ken of the ordinary human. For instance, he is able to cut right through the liberal media’s silly distinctions between “Libyan mobs who killed Americans” and “The Libyan Government that America supports” to get to the simple truth: All Ayrabs BAD cauz America-killers. Take, for instance, his subtle explication of the situation in Libya. Where a lefty publication like the Washington Times might describe President Obama contacting Libya’s President Mohammed Magarief to “thank him for the cooperation the U.S. has received from the Libyan government in responding to the attacks on the U.S. Embassy” (OK, it was a consulate, but this is the Moonie Times, after all), Hoft cuts through the bullshit, ignores the trivial fact that the Libyan president has apologized for the attack, and gets right to the truthiness:

See? Why even mention what kind of “support” the two presidents discussed, when you can simplify like that? Strunk and White would be proud of that headline’s economy and straightforwardness. (Even so, FoxNation somehow managed to out-idiot Jim Hoft: Their headline for a link to Hoft’s blog was “Obama Calls Libyan President to Thank Him After US Ambassador Murdered.”)

Warning: Graphic images after the jump

Hoft also repeats what is becoming a right-wing alternate reality: Where most reports, including comments by the President and Secretary of State Clinton, describe Libyans who were not involved in the attack carrying the body of Ambassador Christopher Stevens to a hospital, the right has decided that a jubilant mob of “Islamists dragged the dead body of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the consulate after he was murdered.” Is this a photo of a body being “dragged through the streets” by his crazed killers, or a photo of would-be rescuers trying to carry an injured or dead victim to a hospital?

We have seen photos of mobs desecrating corpses, as in the 1992 “Blackhawk Down” incident in Somalia (warning: disturbing images in that link), and have yet to see a single one where someone in the “crazed mob” put their arms around the victim’s torso to lift the body. A member of a crazed mob is probably not going to carefully put his cellphone in his mouth to free up a hand. Bodies being dragged through the streets are usually DRAGGED ON THE FUCKING STREET, pulled by their arms or ankles. Would-be rescuers, or people trying to get a dead body to the hospital, may very well clumsily carry the person like this:

If video emerges of Ambassador Stevens’ body actually being dragged or desecrated, we will of course condemn that. But this looks like an attempted rescue to us.

It is probably also worth mentioning, not that it will carry any weight with assholes like Jim Hoft, that Secretary Clinton’s statement on the U.S. – Libya security discussions

noted that the consulate’s Libyan security forces stood with U.S. security forces in defending the consulate buildings.

“One of the local militias that was friendly to the embassy came to assist as well,” the official added, “and I think that really speaks to the relationship that we have built with Libya.”

OK, now that everyone is thoroughly disgusted at all of humanity, here is a palate-cleansing bit of hope for y’all: Buzzfeed has run two sets of photos of Libyans apologizing for the attacks. Join us in having a good weep, if you please:

(The Atlantic also provides some translations of the signs in Arabic.) Of course, even these images are subject to interpretation. A couple of Buzzfeed commenters, noting that some of the signs in English were held by different people in different photos, declared the whole thing “nothing more than a well staged photo-op.” Thank you, NSA photo analysts of Facebook. We appreciate your vigilance.

Update: Hey, you know how the Islamophobes are always saying that you never see moderate Muslims condemning terrorism? Maybe it’s because you can show them photos of moderate Muslims condemning terrorism, and they’ll just decide the whole thing is fake.

Sigh… OK, you may go back to being thoroughly disgusted at all of humanity now.

About the author

Doktor Zoom Is the pseudonym of Marty Kelley, who lives in Boise, Idaho. He acquired his nym from a fan of Silver-Age comics after being differently punctual to too many meetings. He is not a medical doctor, although he has a real PhD (in Rhetoric and Composition).

Mitt's nickname for his relations with Ann is none of you people's business!

el_donaldo

"When I claimed that Obama was in league with the terrorists, I was simply affirming the administration's earlier position that we should condemn all terrorist acts… What contradiction?"

BerkeleyBear

Well, he did manage to go two whole days before publicly condemning the film he said the Cairo delegation was wrong to condemn. That's probably a record for him being consistent in the last six years.

Indiepalin

"Stupidest person on the internet"? – not as long as I'm around

Jus_Wonderin

You P gets more negative everyday. Fighting wars out there?

Indiepalin

Trying to make it to -100 by the erection. Can you help?

Terry

You're at -107 now. Go for absolute zero, -273 deg C or -459.7 deg F

BaldarTFlagass

0 degrees Kelvin! Where snark comes to a complete stop, even at the sub-atomic level.

Doktor Zoom

Did you hear about the scientist who was frozen to absolute zero? He's 0K now.

Nostrildamus

Actually, the Uncertainty Principle ensures there are some minimal snark fluctuations, even at absolute zero. Fart jokes, probably.

Biel_ze_Bubba

That's because of the snark-gluon plasma… or is that at the hot end of things? (Damn, I'm supposed to know that…)

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Sorry, no down fist button. And I upfisted your original comment because it was teh funny.

*Hangs head in shame

Willardbot9000_V2.5

Nah…I have an opinion on this and I think neither you (haha) nor that idiot Hoft are it. My vote for dumbest uh…thing on the internet is the entirety of Free Republic. There are so many demented, moronic idiots on that site I have to vote the entire site as a collective. Even Brietfarters are more intelligent than Freepers…they just take stupidity to an entire new level. They are a pyroclastic cloud of stupidity, lunacy, racism and paranoia that nothing can live through.

gullywompr

I apologize to the entire planet for the existence of Jim Hoft.

And Fox Nation also too.

We are doomed as a species.

Callyson

I think we Wonketteers need to go on an apology tour around the world to apologize for the wingnuts.

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

That is actually an excellent idea.

Veritas78

I have always longed to apologize to the Balinese. Let me know how I can help.

Not_So_Much

Why let any truth get in the way of being early and salacious?

Also, Jim Hoft may be the ugliest albino woman I've ever seen.

http://www.wonkette.com/ FlownOver

If Edgar Winter had gone to Regent University…

freakishlywrong

Yes. With assholes like Hoft, Mittens and Malkin, (et al), the U.S.A is indeed sorry and sad.

freddymcmurray

We have the trifecta of shame in St. Louis: dim Jim Hoft, Dana "batshit crazy" Loesch, and a million Limbaughs.

http://rightthinkingamerican.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

I'd go further and call it a false flag attack by classified drones that look and sound like an ugly street mob on our own embassy to trick Romney into giving his heartfelt statement (since it's never too early to stand up for America) and rolling into a master plan to get him hung by the liberal media.

GeorgiaBurning

Breitbart, is that you??

Barrelhse

Hanged.

http://rightthinkingamerican.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Proper grammar is for libruls!!!!

BaldarTFlagass

OT, just notified by email that as a result of the Affordable Care Act, one of my federal benefits (up to $5,000 worth of medical, including prescriptions, can be paid for with pre-tax money), has been cut in half (and I have used the full $5,000 for the last three years). Well, hell, if it helps someone less fortunate than me, fine. But between this and the “not having a pay raise or cost-of-living adjustment since January 2010,” I reckon that the Combined Federal Campaign is going to be sucking hind tit this year. Sorry, no-kill shelter; maybe next year…

Terry

Our Health Care Flexible Savings accounts. I got that email, too.

The pool of money available for performance bonuses and awards for our folks has been cut to the bone. Basically, they don't exist any more.

$500 before taxes and the scorn of a less than thankful nation, or so it feels at times.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

If it makes any difference, you two, I, at least, am grateful to you public servants for all that you do.

Terry

Thanks, it's good to hear now and again.

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ Chow Yun Flat

Yeah, federal employees aren't exactly rolling in it, nor have they been. My father worked for the FAA and I can remember my mom checking the mailbox for the income tax refund check so we could go on vacation.

David Brooks had a column today about how "Economy II" (government workers) is becoming a drag on "Economy I" (the incorrectly term private sector) and how it must be reformed–i.e. gutted.

David Brooks can suck my sweaty balls.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

David Brooks is a blight upon this nation and a blot upon its escutcheon. I should like to wind his testicles around his neck until his fat face turned purple, but that would probably meet with disapproval, so I shall continue to fantasize that parasitic aliens are nomming his brainz, such as they are.

Driftglass, for those who follow his wonderful blog, just filleted him again today. I despise that mealy-mouthed scum for his deliberate attempts to hoodwink his readership by appealing to its best, most noble, and most liberal instincts.

greenloner

Yes, yes, yes to the last sentence of this comment of yours. I had to quit watching the Newshour on Fridays because I could no longer stand to watch David Brooks carrying water for the wingnuts of the Right.

HistoriCat

Yeah – that does suck.. I guess they decided that too many of the people socking away the full amount were higher ups. Not surprising considering the poor people can't afford to do without that money in the first place and just hope they don't need it. Also, they should have killed the "use it or lose it" rule – that bugs the shit out of me.

Then you're going to love what they're doing over at Lawyers, Guns, & Money.

Native_of_SL_UT

Paging Doktor Zoom.
Please, please give us a caption contest on Wonkette with these pictures too.

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

He thinks he's so fucking smart.

UnholyMoses

I DEMAND A CORRECTION!!

Jim Hoft is the stupidest fucking person on the entire goddamn planet and maybe even in the Milky Way galaxy, not just on the Internet.

I will wait for you to edit the post accordingly.

**crosses arms, taps foot**

Doktor Zoom

Look it this way: He is the stupidest man. He is also on the Internet.

UnholyMoses

Touché …

gullywompr

His stupidity is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

Doktor Zoom

Don't panic!

Grief_Lessons

That is unreal. In the sense of having nothing to do with reality.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Give Faux News credit for tagging the article accurately. I was going to suggest that they should make "Unreal News" a regular category for their productions … but it would pretty much swallow up all of their "political" reporting.

Years ago I worked at a fish hatchery in Arkansas. One of the old guys who couldn't read asked me what was etched into his leather wallet. It said "Space Cadet."

Jus_Wonderin

Oh, big grin. Big grin.

BaldarTFlagass

Arkansas? Was he the Director of the Hatchery?

el_donaldo

My stupider relations are all over Facebook with this shit. I tried, Lord, I tried, to correct some of it early on, but I gave up. Every thought in their mind when exposed to any excitement from the Middle East condenses into "Obama Muslim Terrorist USA USA USA" and it always will.

sharethegrief

My sympathies. I'm starting to think a more appropiate name is Fecebook.

tessiee

I started calling it assbook after someone posted a chart that showed how President Obama had improved benefits for veterans, and one of the FIRST THREE comments was, "Obama doesn't care about veterans. What has he ever done for them except take away their benefits?".

sharethegrief

Assbook is good. Here's what I read today:
"I can't attribute this to a particular person but I heard that Obama agreed to give up Israel in exchange for getting bin Laden."
The stupid is everywhere.

Native_of_SL_UT

And they completely fail to see that they are just like the people running through the streets in the Middle East. They too see the extremists on the other side of the world and think that they represent the mainstream.
The only difference between them and the rioters is that they are fat, lazy Americans.
My solution to achieve peace in the Middle East is to make them like us so they don't take to the streets. Our US foriegn aid should consist solely of giving each person in the Middle access to a flat screen TV with DirectTV and an Xbox. Then they could relieve their frustrations with Sex Games Las Vegas and killing aliens as Master Chief like good Americans do.

Doktor Zoom

"The only difference between them and the rioters is that they are fat, lazy Americans."

Thank the Lord for small mercies.

OK, great big slowly-waddling mercies.

sullivanst

big slowly-waddling mercies.

Hoverround libel!

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

This is the kind of thing that makes me glad I'm not on facebook. I kinda hate facebook. And teh twitter too.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

<cringe>

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Present tweeters and facebookers excepted, of course.Hugz teh Z.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Honest, I only use it for political work. (Hugs the Star)

Barrelhse

You must look forward to Thanksgiving.

el_donaldo

Actually, face-to-face it's not bad. Though Thanksgiving 2008 was rough going, I admit.

http://for-the-turnstiles.blogspot.com 4TheTurnstiles

Your move, Pam Gellar.

http://wonkette.com/ weejee

Can we send this douchebag and his fellow travelers to Kiribati, tie them to palm trees and let the man-made global warming lift the tide of retribution?

freakishlywrong

Or better yet, Tahrir Square, or really anywhere in the "Muslim world".

Studpiest Person on the Interwebs is a major prize, although I think his commenters are even more deserving than he is.

Native_of_SL_UT

It should be corrected to say "stupidest person who is paid to be on the interwebs", but that's only because Breitbart is still dead.

oenspiek

That pic looks like a rescue attempt to me, too. I wonder if the man carrying Stevens can be identified.

As for Hoft, his title is well-deserved.

PeaceWithHonor

We don't do nuance. It makes our little brains hurt.

BaldarTFlagass

Why does my Wonkette look so weird?

http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/ actor212

I thought it was just me. Thank god the mescaline wore off.

Baconzgood

What a fucking bunch of fucks. People died and they are making this a political football. It's unconscionable. If my comment is removed I understand but these fucks need kicked in the fucking na'ads with golf shoes really really fucking hard.

(this comment is 100% snark free)

PuckStopsHere

He's only the stupidest person on the internet because Mittens doesn't know how to log on….

chicken_thief

Along the same lines (not all moozlins is bad), I watched a live shot of Cairo last night. When panned out away from the couple hundred or so protesters, the city (of 6M+) looked normal and tranquil.

Terry

Have you seen any of the interviews with the protesters? The BBC had some on the radio. Turns out all the guys the BBC spoke with had never seen the movie or the movie preview on YouTube. They just KNEW, however, that America insulted Mohammed. It reminded me of when they interview pissed off tea baggers in this country, but arguably the protesters in Cairo were taking things a different route than the tea baggers.

Doktor Zoom

Sort of like how Islamophobes just KNOW that the anti-terror rally is "fake."

Native_of_SL_UT

According to Pat Robertson, that's because the rest of men were home beating their wives instead.

Neoyorquino

You can't repel stupid of that magnitude. But we should probably try.

Tequila Mockingbird

Wow, Brian Posehn has really let himself go.

tessiee

The Former Mr. Tessie [watching Brian Poseyn on TV]: I don't look like that, do I?
Me: Nah, he's tall.

Me_K_Cong

The poor man is developing a chin-breast. I guess the nipple comes later.

BaldarTFlagass

Isn't that the dictionary picture next to "wattle?"

http://wonkette.com/ VA_Dreaming

A few assholes and their uneducated followers in Libya plus a few assholes and a their undereducated followers in the US are going to start a war where the rest of the good people in both counties will be killed. Perhaps if we took the few assholes in each country and put them together in a neutral country we could have a pretty good reality show.

Dudleydidwrong

Dibs on the popcorn concession.

Schmannnity

America will not rest until the perpetrators are in a naked pyramid in prison!

Texan_Bulldog

Those pictures make me sad. RIP, Ambassador Stevens. That is all.

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Agreed a thousand times. Those pics are appallingly sad. That anyone would try to make political hay out of such an event is unconscionable.

I am so glad that it's Friday and I can turn off the computer and the dial back the rage-o-meter in favor of some nice peaceful college and pro football games over the weekend.

orygoon

Snarkless teary over the little kid with the sign. Blessings on the good Libyan people. I hoped for good things for them when Gaddafi was being ousted, and still do.

prommie

If being stupid on the internet is wrong, I don't want to be right. As I have and will continue to make abundantly obvious.

Monsieur_Grumpe

I am symbolically right behind you. I would do it in person but those restraining orders are so annoying.

sullivanst

A couple of Buzzfeed commenters, noting that some of the signs in English were held by different people in different photos, declared the whole thing “nothing more than a well staged photo-op.”

Because, of course, nobody ever asks a friend to hold their sign while they go to the bathroom, or just because their arms are getting tired.

Doktor Zoom

Or passes around one of the few signs in English when there's a Western reporter with a camera. It hardly invalidates the sentiment.

ALL photos of demonstrations are "staged" to some extent — it's what a "demonstration" IS.

omrala

^^ This.

mr bojangles

latest fox headline 'obama killed ambassador, dragged his body through the street, then fed it to dogs'

romney demands obama present himself to him at once!!

no_gravity

IQ of a fence post. Also, I've seen better looking fence posts.

sullivanst

BTW, notice in the first picture of the crowd "dragging" Christopher Stephens, the guy with the cellphone in his mouth is wearing a Manchester United shirt. Clearly anti-West through and through, fucking turrurrst.

Also too, they took him to a hospital where Doctors attempted to revive him for 90 minutes, and once his death was confirmed, the body was handed over to US officials. That's how mobs desecrating bodies always go down, isn't it?

Native_of_SL_UT

These terrorists are doing it wrong. You're supposed to drag the body to a bridge somewhere, not a hospital.

anniegetyerfun

See? Obama can't even get us attacked by the right kind of terrorist. This proves what a weak and ineffective leader he is.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Try telling RWNJs that. They'll probably come up with an explanation of why Moose-Lump Turrrrrsts Do Eeet Deeeferent. Or maybe it happened on Tuesdays, which is when MLT lift bodies instead of dragging them. Or sumpn.

Doktor Zoom

Those soccer hooligans really get around.

tessiee

"Call that a soccer riot? come on, lads, let's take them to school!" — Groundskeeper Willie

Peckerwood_Pete

You know…. trying to determine who stupdiest man on the internet is would be as difficult as trying to determine who the smartest person in W. Virginaia is…

Native_of_SL_UT

The smartest man from West Virginia is probably a NASCAR crew chief now.

Peckerwood_Pete

actually, on second though….. the smartest person from W. Virginia has probably moved to another state by now…

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Thereby proving his smarts.

frostbitefalls

It does tear me up to see the pics of the counter-demonstrators. I mean, what did I do to deserve this show of sympathy and solidarity? Thank you, peaceful and rational people of the world.

A certain son of a mill worker was right: There are two Americas. And it's high-fucking-time people like this get out of my America and go back to their own under a rock version where they belong. I'm going to go out on a limb here and blame that fucker Nixon for letting this shitty march towards stupidity and intolerance thrive.

Weenus299

This is so fucking sad. Rioting, stupidity, and that ugly motherfucker who has more power to spread his message of fuckheadedness than I do. The squeaky wheels are the fucking assholes.

BaldarTFlagass

"A member of a crazed mob is probably not going to carefully put his cellphone in his mouth to free up a hand."

"Nah, he was trying to get a close-up phone pic "selfy" of himself with the ambassador, but stupid Ay-rab hasn't quite figured out the procedure yet."

CrunchyKnee

"Warning: Graphic images after the jump"

What, that picture of that dumb fucktard, Hoft isn't graphic?

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Needs MOAR graphic.

Scarletyoshi

It's so fricking sad. We have a bunch of assholes fighting a holy war with each-other and the rest of us are stuck on the sidelines apologizing to each-other. Kind of which we could send em all to an island and let them work their shit out while the rest of us gets on with our lives.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

I've seen people attacked by mobs. I've seen people in mobs trying to get someone to safety. These pictures are extremely disturbing, but I commend you for publishing them. I can say from my own experience that the people around the ambassador are not attacking him. People attacking someone who is down on the ground will often pose for photos of themselves smiling while stepping, standing on, or kicking the injured party. There's some kind of atavistic reflex in our brains that makes us want to demonstrate our part in the hunt and kill, and a foot astride the fallen seems to say it best.

Reports from the scene indicate that the ambassador and one or more others were carried to cars and then rushed to the nearest hospital in an attempt to save their lives. The hospital had previously sent out an ambulance to retrieve the fallen, but the ambulance apparently got lost en route. Despite the prompt actions of the sympathetic Libyans on the ground, Chris Stevens, who was apparently greatly loved by the Libyan people who interacted with him, is dead. This is a sad thing, and should not be politicized by anyone. Most especially the slavering rightwingnutjob dolts who seem to see everything and anything as an excuse for renewed war.

BerkeleyBear

Yeah, this is nothing like the Abu Gharib photos or the Somalis dragging the Rangers through Mogadishu, or the contractors hung off the bridge. Normally a group of attackers would either be posing to show dominance or you'd see them crowding the body to get their whacks in. Giving someone room to move is normally a sign of aid being rendered.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

'Tain't doing my PTSD any good, tho.

HistoriCat

Come here, you! We'll comfort each other.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

(Snuggles up in HistoriCat's warm belly fur) Hey, this is pretty nice!

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Room for one more?

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Cuddle in. Nothing like a warm, sweet-smelling kitteh.

Native_of_SL_UT

Normally I would blast anyone who dares come onto Wonkette with a posting so serious it brings tears to my eyes, but these words are the best I have seen anywhere on this horrible situation.
Thank you so much this, MittBorg, but please don't make a habit of it. My heart couldn't bear it.

Well this certainly gives me something to think about. Is Mr. Hoft a bigger ass if he believes it, or if he knows it is a lie?

lumpenprole

I like the sputtering "UNREAL." Well, yeah, it totally is.

proudgrampa

Speaking from experience: dragging a dead (or unconscious) person to safety looks like you're abusing a dead (or unconscious) person. It can't be helped — you're trying to get the dead (or unconscious) person to safety because the situation won't allow you to triage in situ.

lobsterboy22

Jim's a good looking boy. What company is he underneath?

tessiee

Did you mean whose company is he underneath?
Because I'm guessing no one's, abso-fuckin-lutely no one's.

lobsterboy22

O.K., "whose." Or maybe I should have said "beneath." Whose company is he beneath? Or even "within?" There's gotta be some connection.

BaldarTFlagass

That haircut is the end result of being so homophobic that you won't even use a gay hairdresser.

While much has been written about Jim Hoft's stupidity, not enough has been written about how much he looks like a penis crossbred with a mushroom.

anniegetyerfun

This is my favorite comment today.

Doktor Zoom

Now THAT'S media bias.

tessiee

A penis crossed with a mushroom would serve a more constructive purpose.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

I'm THINKING, dammit!

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

I was FORCED to upfist your comment by all the LOLage.

DocChaos

Stupidest man on the internet? Read the comments on his blog before you decide that.

They would describe a fireman's job as dragging people through burning buildings.

Republicans believe that Qaddafi was America's BFF and are concerned that Obama insulted the Muslim Brotherhood with his "not an ally" comment.

Buzz Feedback

Whatever he paid for that haircut, it was too much.

http://www.marionstein.net Self-Uploader

Slightly OT, but just want to point out that notwithstanding the two privateers who were also killed, maybe just maybe "privatizing" embassy security helps adds to the problem? A couple of years ago I stayed at a hotel on the "safest block in Nairobi." Know why it was so safe? It was across the street from the Israeli embassy.

Granted this was in Bengazi, not Tripoli, but still, seems to me in this region of the world we could be doing a bit better.

paulf40

Wow, Bruce Vilanch has really let himself go.

OneYieldRegular

*very, very heavy sigh*

zomgitsjesus

It's gotta be the bath salts.

cousinitt

I beg to differ with Herr Doktor's very first sentence. The powers of Ken far exceed that of Mr. Hoft. Why Caribou Barbie herself has often taken great pleasure in Ken's firm plasticity yet flexible manners while Hoft's most penetrating probes involve a bag of Cheetos.

Allmighty_Manos

What, did Todd Akin shut down his Twitter account.

http://sciencekick.blogspot.com valthemus

"… you can show them photos of moderate Muslims condemning terrorism, and they’ll just decide the whole thing is fake."

Didn't you know? Conservatives are entitled to their own opinions AND their own facts! ('Cause theyz is special!)

ZN1300

Is it too soon to talk about gun control?

Blunderthing

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" –Upton Sinclair.

That's so snarky.

pdiddycornchips

That guy with the cell phone in his mouth should probably get his affairs in order. He won't
live to see another Monday.

Pithaughn

Note to all media's, please add " and 65 years of military imperialism" to all stories that have something like " mob went apeshit over movie that depicted their prophet in a bad way".
For instance the AP could add "and 65 years of military imperialism " to any of their pieces on angry Muslim protesters around the world.

pdiddycornchips

I'd like to hear media types explain how they decided the guy who made that horrid film was an Israeli and it was funded by Jewish donors. After the violence, they decided to look into this claim and learned the fucking asshole was a Coptic Christian Egyptian with a history of fraud. Given the history of animus between Jews and Muslims, it might have been a good idea to check out the validity of this cocksuckers claims before
broadcasting his lies around the world. Remember this next time one of these well paid twat waffles tells you how important the press is to a functioning Democracy. Assholes.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

They "decided" that because Nakoula Basseley Nakoula told the people who knew him and worked with him that he was an Israeli Jew and that other Jews had donated the money to fund this piece of propaganda. It now appears that Pamela Geller's good friend Joseph Nasrallah was actually involved in the production. Stay tuned.

But yes, they are the most godawful assholes. You and I, for example, immediately thought it was a setup. Why our brainless media bubbleheads didn't at least check more thoroughly, I don't know.

Doktor Zoom

Yeesh. Geller is now calling criticism of these loons "The war in the information battlespace" and telling her readers that reporters trying to find out more about who actually made that crappy movie are engaged in

the enforcement of sharia, just as brutal and unforgiving as it is in Muslim countries. The media's complicity in targeting freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech is savage. They are putting a fatwa on the heads of free thinkers. Intellectual terrorism.

If it weren't for the fact that people are dying because of shits like her, it would be laughable.

She also has a recording of herself haranguing a Newsweek reporter who asks some questions about Nasrallah, accusing him of "going after" him and seeking to "put a target on his head." Asking questions about that sort of thing is "a war on free speech, a war on our freedoms. You want people to sacrifice their freedom so as not to offend savages. You should really think about this. You should really think hard…I see the direction it's going is to criminalize free speech."

pdiddycornchips

When will these fucking morons realize that free speech does not mean free of criticism? This asshole made a movie designed to incite violence. That doesn't forgive the violence but it doesn't make the the asshole immune to being called out for the piece of shit he is. This guy isn't hiding because he fears liberals, he's hiding because he fears one of those Arab terrorists he inspired with his dumb movie might chop his head off. What's Gellar's point here anyway? That the media, after mistakenly claiming this guy a Jew, should have just stuck with that story? Isn't Gellar a huge Israel supporter? I wonder if she asked the Israeli's how they feel about being dragged into this shit storm.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

The Israelis are not happy at all, but they have their own problems to deal with right now. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are split on the issue of Iran, and between local, regional, and international politics, this is all a fine to-do.

Doktor Zoom

No, don't you see? Trying to get information out about people who say controversial things is equivalent to putting a price on their heads, because they are simply trying to expose the truth about the Worldwide Jihadist Threat. They must remain free to do their holy work in the shadows. Like Batman.

pdiddycornchips

Gawd I need a Maker's Mark and a Zanax. Delving that deep into the wingnut rabbit hole will require some self medication.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Jesus! Pamela Geller has done more to *hurt* the cause of Jews than just about anything. She's worse than the fucking Likudniks, who at least are risking getting their asses shot and killed for spouting their putrid shit, and who at least can say that they have a right to spout that shit being as they're Israeli, and have a right to determine the future of their own nation, even if we think they're motherfuckers.

Geller, there is no excuse for. She sits here comfortable in the US, and works to support causes and organizations that further hatred and division among people she will never have to sorrow over or comfort or pay for the healing of. Truly, it's a pity she can't be charged with sedition. A shonda fur die goyim.

Pithaughn

Ah, my friend you have forgotten, we do not have a "press" anymore, just stenographers. If an alien who was semi educated landed today in north america it would most certainly conclude this is a fascist political system. the oligarchs control the mass media to a degree that makes dissent a suspicious activity. I have yet to hear or read a story that puts this mayhem into historical context.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Yes, after listening to one media idiot after another babble endlessly about the "Ryan Budget," I have yet to hear one of them ask for some specific numbers. What kind of budget doesn't have numbers? Why haven't our media pointed out that Ryan voted against any kind of budget all along, and his decrying of the President's budget is nothing short of abject hypocrisy?

I must stop drinking so much tea, I'm getting downright shouty.

bobbert

Fuck yeah. Back when I was a working stiff, one of the things I had to do was produce (and live with) budgets for my business units. Now, admittedly, these were only 20 or 30M budgets, but a key feature of all of them was:

They weren't a fucking budget until they had fucking numbers in all the blanks. And the fucking numbers had to be supported with some kind of fucking justification. And people would attack the fucking numbers and their justifications, because that's how you find out if they make fucking sense.

Fucking Paul Ryan has never done a fucking budget in his fucking life. He's a fucking Congressman — they're granted an office allocation and just fucking spend it.

Fuck all these assholes.

<sorry. rant over>

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

(Pats your back sympathetically) It's OK, dude. We're all feeling extra shouty and stabby ever since things went south in the mid-East.

viennawoods13

65 years? The US occupied the Philippines in 1899.

tessiee

"Note to all media's, please add " and 65 years of military imperialism" to all stories"

I looked at that picture of Hoft and then read the article. By the time I was done, I couldn't say for sure whether he looked so fucking stupid to me because of what I read about him, or just because he looks so fucking stupid, period.

Anybody else ever have that problem?

MegPasadena

Yesterday Brian Fischer was singing the same tune and mentioned Somalia as well.
He thinks it's an act of war and wants to hang all the protesters on the neck dead.
Pretty scary stuff.

anniegetyerfun

This is the kind of thing that those folks enjoy masturbating to.

DahBoner

"Good Lord! This feller doesn't even have a mustache" –The Amish

tessiee

True story: Back when I worked in retail, one of my favorite customers was the guy who came into the store who had a mohawk hairdo AND an Amish beard.

cheetojeebus

Fuck

http://slackoftownnola.wordpress.com Comrade Wingtardd

When you look worse than Andy Warhol's corpse what else is there to do?

http://slackoftownnola.wordpress.com Comrade Wingtardd

Shouldn't the alt text read "ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN"

Tundra Grifter

Republican partisans are busy blaming our President and the Arab Spring for the massacre in Libya, and the attacks on American embassys and consulates in other nations.

Of course they ignore history – they always do.

During the eight years George Bush was President we had:

2002: U.S. Consulate In Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked; 10 Killed, 51 Injured.
2004: U.S. Embassy Bombed In Uzbekistan.
2004: Gunmen Stormed U.S. Consulate In Saudi Arabia.
2006: Armed Men Attacked U.S. Embassy In Syria.
2007: Grenade Launched Into U.S. Embassy In Athens.
2008: Rioters Set Fire To U.S. Embassy In Serbia.
2008: Ten People Killed In Bombings At U.S. Embassy In Yemen.

If only we had a much, much larger military, no one would dare do that.

tessiee

Maybe President Obama should attack and go to war with some random country that has nothing to do with Libya, and talk a lot of horseshit about how he "stands up to terrists".
It worked for Dumbass.

anniegetyerfun

But weren't most of the people killed in those attacks during the Bush administration locals? That's the key right there. It's only when a white guy* is killed that nutjobs care to criticize the black guy who runs the country.

*Does not apply to enlisted white guys.

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

I guess the thing to take away from all of this is that, everywhere in the world, there are good, decent people who will risk reprisal to help a fellow human being. I only hope I can live up to that example.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

I've been in some very strange situations in this life, and all I can say is, Yes, absolutely. Despite its ugliness and its flaws, this world is filled with good people, as well as bad.

Doktor Zoom

Also, no good deed goes unpunished by morons who have no idea what they're talking about.

C_R_Eature

Hey, Dok Zoom: I think we need to revisit This little blast emailSPAM I got on August 27th for what looks like an egregiously incendiary anti-Muslum book on Amazon. For the Record, I never get this kind of spam.
From the email, titled "Exporting Islamic Terrorism":

Did you know that Mohammad was a drunken, child molesting, cowardly pimp? The Ayatollahs and Terrorists do not want you to know the truth about Islam and promise to harm you if you tell anyone. Fight back and read this well written, totally funny, parody on the founding of the so-called religion.

The good non-biased reviews on Amazon.com "How Fatima Started Islam" are very accurate in describing this both laugh and insult per page well written novel featuring the always drunk proprietor of Mohammad's Saloon & Brothel. Still, available from Amazon.com and 234 truly funny pages at only $9.99. You will not be sorry, but do not import this book to the Middle East. The Terrorists DO NOT want you or anybody to read, publicize, promote,or purchase this book, they HATE the fact that this book exists and is being read. Buying this parody is not only sticking up for American freedom it is sending a big message to Islam.

How Fatima Started Islam

Something is Rotten, methinkst, and not in the State of Denmark.

Doktor Zoom

Jesus.

Sure, we cover insanity and weirdness, but I'm not going to handle toxic waste. I've got Christianists to mock.

C_R_Eature

And a full plate of Christiansts, too. Probably for the best.

I do believe the linkage has been noticed, so we'll just stand back and let the Pros in Tyvek suits handle this one.

viennawoods13

I should not have clicked that link. When I started looking at "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed", the items that came up were very very disquieting.

C_R_Eature

Yeah, you know what? I think this thing is "Best Left Alone" I feel like I've dug up a live artillery round. A very ugly live artillery round, with very ugly friends. I'll let the bomb squad handle this one.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

(Hugs you) Take it easy out there.

C_R_Eature

Thanks, I will.

See, this is exactly the point. No telling who's watching. We get all cozy with each other, like this is a living room or something and we forget all about "spanky2b", Lurkers and the Troll Wars. We best all take it easy.

tessiee

"The good non-biased reviews"
…all confirm my beliefs. I mean, what are the odds, right?

C_R_Eature

Why, yes. The people who are telling me exactly what I want to hear are telling me exactly what I want to hear. Those are the ones that are "Non-Biased." Q.E.D.

It's like the Scientific Method, in that it is the exact polar opposite.

Doktor Zoom

Kinda like asking a believer "So, is there anything that you think God disagrees with you on?"

C_R_Eature

Well, He didn't listen to me about mosquitos being a Really Bad Idea and now look at the mess we're in. Now that you mention it.

http://dynamoe.tumblr.com nobodyssweetheart

Oof. He looks like Boris Johnson without the Old World charm…

pdiddycornchips

The attack in Benghazi was likely the work of an Al Qaeda affiliate. Our ambassador was killed in a safe house he was taken to after the initial protests. Bad guys were waiting for them there which means it wasn't random, it was coordinated and likely an inside job,. I am certain the CIA is hard at work trying to figure out who is responsible. I have little doubt, given our intelligence network in Libya, they'll find them and kill them dead,. Given the idiocy of our political discourse, I assume Republicans will claim it was all a set up to help re-elect Barry. The Media will focus on this for a day or two and totally ignore the fact that wingnuts are fucking insane assholes.

tessiee

Hey, Hoft!
Gary Busey called; he wants his melanin back.
also his crazy.

Maybe some of them are fake. Maybe not. You know what? I don't care. Year after year through my lifetime, I've seen photos and videos purporting to be the "man on the street" in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Libya, across the Middle East and North Africa, and inevitably this man –rarely but sometimes women– was burning something in effigy, throwing a rock, firing shots in the air. I don't doubt that anger and enmity towards the US, the west, and/or non-Muslims exists and is broadly spread. But I never believed that was representative of the all Middle Eastern citizens, and the violence endorsed was not shared by most Middle Eastern citizens. Even in those cases when it might reflect an emotion that was, justifiably or not justifiably, shared by the whole citizenry. Most of us are capable of complex feelings, complex thought. I never saw the videos and photos of that. I never saw anyone who disagreed with the methods or results of the fistpumpers and effigy-burners. I think those people exist. Maybe they were cowed. Maybe they spoke up but were drowned out by the drama. Maybe they agreed just enough with the protestors to not want to speak against them, but did not wholeheartedly agree. Maybe he or she did not want to be disloyal to this country or his religion or his family or his tribe, even when he disagreed to the gut with their actions or beliefs of them.
And I never saw something staged as street theatre by a politician or faction leader that expressed sympathy. Many Middle Eastern politicians expressed support officially when the US or other western countries suffered losses, and that was covered in the western media. Again, I am sure that many people felt compassion when westerners were killed, but the public displays were largely negative.

Maybe this is heartfelt or staged or likely both. I have certain been to enough rallies for causes I support to know that you can support the cause AND have a prefabbed sign. Regardless, I am touched that people wanted to express sympathy for the Ambassador and the consulate personnel. I am heartened that maybe someone actually thought staging a sympathetic rally was a good idea, if that's what happened. I am glad that this is getting some coverage. Out of this loss, maybe something good

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

Mm. Close-set eyes.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com MittBorg

Like so many others we know.

ElPinche

Can we get a wha wha for Hillary Clinton kicking some ass out there? And props to Barack for keeping his cool and not beating the shit out of Romney for meddling in foreign affairs. That headline would be something , though.

Isyaignert

Just look up "stupidest man on the Internet" and there's Jim Hoft's picture.

I'll take a well staged photo-op over a clumsily handled one any day of the jihad.

TribecaMike

A typical comment at gatewaypundit from "Patriot1776," who I can only assume is the reincarnation of Molly Pritchett's corncob pipe:

OBAMAS PLANNING A REVOLUTION, THIS IS JUST A RED FLAG. HE KNOWS HE’S GOING TO LOOSE…CURRENT POLLS HAVE ROMNEY AT 78% , OBAMA 49%. LIKE A SIUCIDE BOMMER HE’S GOING TO GIVE SIGNAL TO THE SLEEPER CELLS FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND AL SHARRPTINS NIGRO CREW RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION. ITS TIME TO GET ARMED AND READY FOR A CIVAL WAR PATRIOTS!!

If Romney is going to win in a landslide, why even bother to "get armed" for a "cival war"? Is an anti-Mormon/Papacy uprising in the works in the event that Romney and Ryan win? Is this comment part of yet another stealth marketing campaign by gun shops to increase sales? Does Turtle Wax really work wonders for old tin toys, as Antiques Roadshow claims? Will I run out of beer before 10 pm midnight?

PuglyDoRight

Dude's got Jeff Daniel's "Dumb and Dumber" haircut. How appropriate.

ttommyunger

"STUPIDEST MAN ON THE INTERNET…" True, but only because Senator Ted Stevens is bunking with Breitbart…BTW, my R/W FB Friends are defending the POS Video that caused all this uproar as "Free Speech". They really are.